The farther south you go, the more fleeing Lordaerons you encounter.

Claudia and her party had already left the old manor of Serberchel, and before leaving, Partris took with them a lot of personal belongings, most of which were of little value, but they were precious memories for Partris.

Claudia had nothing to bring, and the only thing she had taken with her was the iron sword that her father had given her to practice when she was ten years old, and whenever she held it, she remembered the countless times when the old baron had taught her swordsmanship.

Before leaving, Claudia, with the assistance of the Silver Hand, released the heroic rank to release the high-level sacred spell, the Holy Land, around her father's graveyard.

Since then, within ten years, the land around the old baron's graveyard has been infused with powerful holy light power, and the undead below the elite level will be turned into ashes by powerful positive energy as soon as they set foot on it.

After doing all this, Claudia and Partris unleashed a Light Barrier on the villa they once lived in, and although it was not as lethal as the Holy Land, the low-level undead's aversion to the Light would instinctively keep them away from the place.

Claudia did not receive much food at the estate, because the territory of Seberchel was located in a hilly area, and the grain production was not high, and the people planted more fruit trees, and then relied on the wine they made and foreign caravans to trade and sustain the people.

After the outbreak of the natural disaster, the trade route was cut off, and it was in the spring when it was not green, so when Roddy steward left, he took away the grain that was not in stock, and the only little grain left in the manor was probably left by Rodi's housekeeper considering that Partris might come back, which was the biggest reason why Claudia and the others had to leave immediately.

Claudia and Natalie were sitting in the front of the car, while Partres was reading a book in the car.

Ever since Natalie arrived, she had been in charge of the car, she never needed extra tools like a whip, she had a special knack for sitting in the front of the car, even if she was eating absentmindedly, and the horses would go as she wanted. In this regard, the black-haired girl's explanation is that she is a secret shepherd, and she is the best at spiritual communication, so the horses will understand her mind.

Claudia was looking thoughtfully at the sky at this time, and her right hand was still making simple gestures from time to time. Ever since she recovered from her injuries, she had often thought about the battle that had broken out in Fenris, especially the swords Jaime had used in the duel between Jaime and Carlos to the end.

Those styles are not special skills in the power of the ancestors, and the speed is not particularly fast, but each sword is the last to come, and the few swords that perfectly fit the wind and rain of heaven and earth in the battle, so let the opponent face each sword as if he is facing the whole heaven and earth.

Claudia exposed a very serious problem when she fought Jaime, that is, she had a powerful power of holy light with a silver hand, but she could not master and use every bit of power, so that she squandered at least three points of power with one blow, and Jaime, as an opponent, was a master of controlling his own strength, needless to say, not even a single point of power would not be wasted.

In fact, this is also the inevitable sequelae of the rapid increase in strength, three months ago, Claudia was still a professional high-level paladin, and now in just two months, the bloodline awakening directly became an elite mid-level. With the help of the power of the Silver Hand, she can even use hero-level power, and it is normal for her to not have enough control over her own strength.

So Claudia has been working on or thinking about her mastery of strength and related skills whenever she has free time, and Natalie, who is sitting next to her, is swallowing her saliva while reading a cooking book called "The Cookbook of the Northern Kingdoms", which was originally bought by Partriss to learn new dishes, and is now a favorite of the brunette girl.

Natalie's time at Serberchel Manor was very comfortable, and when Hodge's butler led the people to evacuate, he mainly took food with him, and the heavy and unhungry wine and some stock of fruit were left in the cellar.

So Natalie's daily routine is to lie on the roof in the morning and afternoon in the sun, then eat fruit and drink wine while reading the books taken out of the bookcase in Claudia's room, and learn how to cook with Partres during lunch and dinner.

After appearing in flesh and blood, she has developed a great interest in books--- especially all kinds of miscellaneous books, but the greater interest lies in food, and now the black-haired girl has begun to have a tendency to evolve into a foodie, and the meaning of eating to replenish energy is dispensable to her, and what she is really interested in is just a wonderful sense of taste.

Natalie has already planned, when she arrives in the south, in addition to doing things, she will also collect menus and become the best chef, so that she can satisfy her taste anytime and anywhere.

The convoy continued on its way, and after a few more days, they had reached the southernmost point of the Silver Pine Forest, near the Wall of Greymane.

In the past few days, after being attacked many times one after another, everyone in the convoy has come to know the werewolf creature, they are like giant wolves that can walk upright, they don't have much reason, and more often follow their instinctive reactions.

They will drop away from their prey, and when the prey has let down their vigilance, they will fly and pounce on it, and the blow will be fatal.

These werewolves not only eat refugees, but even eat the undead, they are not picky eaters, as long as there is some flesh and blood on the bone frame, even if it is carrion, they will not hesitate to remove the carrion on the bones to fill their stomachs.

Compared with werewolves, the livelihood of refugees is much more difficult, refugees are in a state of hunger and lack of food, fortunately the forest will produce some supplies, so that they will not starve to death, but go to the forest deep to hunt or gather berries itself will face the threat of werewolves.

In the past few days, from time to time, groups of refugees have spied on Claudia from afar, compared with those terrifying werewolves, this small team of mostly women looks very easy to bully, and even once a few people took advantage of Sir Rhine's absence, directly hugged together, and of course, they were beaten and thrown out by Claudia without suspense.

The further south you go, the more survivors there are, and when you reach the vicinity of the Wall of Greymane, you can already see many tents camped, these are refugees who still have illusions about King Gene Greymane of Gilness, and they are eager for King Gilnes to open the door to accept them as new nationals, the number is tens of thousands, and the order has collapsed sharply with the increase in numbers, and the robbery of weak things is seen from time to time, even if she understands that this kind of thing is inevitable, Claudia will still take action to fight the injustice.

After settling another dispute, Claudia meets an acquaintance, a former nominal subordinate, Sir Hodge.

Sir Hodge was a pale, emaciated middle-aged man with a neatly groomed mustache.

At this time, he recognized his former lord and greeted him with some embarrassment, and said, "It's great that you're still alive, Lord Baron." ”

Claudia looked at him with interest: "Otherwise? ”

Sir Hodge rubbed his hands uneasily: "I'm sorry Lord Baron, I don't mean anything else, everyone has rumored that you and Count Fenris are dead, and there are more and more monsters, so I have to give up my territory and go south to join the Ashbury family." ”

After hearing that Sir Hodge had moved out of the new owner, Claudia was not angry, her lord's position was her father's forcible addition to her fate, not her own choice, and naturally she would not care about the betrayal of this guy who had never been loyal to her.

Claudia opened her mouth to reassure: "Be alarmed, Lord Hodge, I didn't mean to pursue you, since the Serberchel Territory has fallen at this time, then the obligation between you and me has been lifted, just chat with me." ”

Hodge breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he must have sworn allegiance to the blonde girl in public, and if the girl did not hold her accountable, it would not be good to spread the reputation of a betrayer, especially if it reached his new owner.

Hodge bowed to Claudia and said gratefully, "Thank you for your magnanimity, Lord Baron. ”

Claudia then pointed to the tents and asked, "What are you going to do with these people?" ”

Speaking of refugees, Hodge was also a little distressed: "We have told them many times that we will not let them in, but they can't help it if they refuse to leave, so we can't send troops to drive them away." ”

Claudia eagerly asked, "Why can't we let them in, they still have a little food in their hands, and when they have the little food they have left, there will be more serious conflicts here, and then it will be more than just robbery." ”

Sir Hodge said helplessly: "His Majesty Greymane refuses to agree to open the door, and there are also poor noble organizations among the refugees who have petitioned His Majesty, but there is little hope. ”

He paused and continued: "In fact, Gilneth is already a small country, and there is no additional arable land, even if His Majesty the King is willing to let them in, their food problem will be a problem, and it is estimated that this year everyone will not be able to fill their stomachs together." ”

Claudia was a little stunned, looked at the refugees gathered outside the border of Gilneys, and then sighed and said: "Even if you can't fill your stomach, you can finally survive, wait a few more months, I don't know how many people will die, these people are all us Lordaerons, even if we can't contain all of them, can we contain some of them?" ”

Claudia looked at Sir Hodge with some hope in her eyes.

Sir Hodge smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "My lord, don't look at me like that, I can't help it, unless Your Majesty speaks, no one will dare to contain it, and doing this kind of thing without permission is easy for Your Majesty to be regarded as a rebel." Let's change the subject, for example, my lord, what is the destination of your trip? ”

Claudia was also inconvenient to continue talking about the refugees, and replied, "I'm going to go to Southsea Town to meet Captain Capet and Butler Rhodes, and then finally go to Stormwind to settle down. ”

Hodge frowned: "My lord, you should take a boat south immediately after you arrive in Nanhai Town, I heard that the form of Nanhai Town is much worse than ours." ”

Claudia was taken aback: "Could it be that the army of the undead has already gone south?" ”

Hodge hurriedly said: "No, I mean refugees, there are many more refugees in Nanhai Town than we here, and Nanhai Town itself is small, and there will be no occasional food distribution to refugees here, I'm afraid there is already a mess there." ”

The girl was silent for a moment.